This paper investigates the sensitivity of the variable poverty facing the public policies currently adopted by the Brazilian government, focusing on four central aspects: higher education, per capita income, unemployment rate and Bolsa Família program. In recent years, the Brazilian government...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of left Brazilian political parties and partisan disruption on the homicide rate in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The authors use panel data for the states between the years 1980 and 2011. The database used is an unbalanced...

Esse artigo constrói um modelo teórico onde cada indivíduo maximiza sua função de utilidade intertemporal consumo-lazer para explicar o diferencias de salário recebido pelas prostitutas. O modelo não considera qualquer hipótese sobre o nível de habilidade das prostitutas. Contudo, o...